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AI wants Bitcoin miners’ power, but the contracts reveal who really gets paid

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Bitcoin miners spent years securing cheap electricity, building substations, and negotiating the grid connections needed to power their operations. Now AI companies want those connections so badly they're willing to make aging mines valuable real estate. The ASICs that mine Bitcoin are practically useless for training AI models, but the land, substations, and power agreements around them could spare data-center developers years of waiting. SWI Group took control of Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets earlier this year and announced an €800 million capital increase on Oct. 12 to expand its AI infrastructure business. Two weeks later, it launched SWI Compute , disclosing roughly $1 billion in NVIDIA equipment orders and its first customers, with some contracts still being finalized.

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